Brig Naseem Akhtar R

  FOR several days, I remained uncertain about what to call this article. I knew what I wanted to write about: the deepening security and…

  EVERY society has issues that require careful handling. National identity, ethnicity, regional grievances, internal security, economic anxiety and fear of external conflict can carry…

  THE gravest threats to national security rarely appear out of nowhere. More often, they announce themselves quietly through small, scattered and apparently unrelated developments…

  After a lifetime of watching conflicts unfold, crises build and decisions being made in the shadows, I have learned to distrust one thing more…

  THE battlefield is no longer military. Security competition today operates simultaneously through military power, economics, technology, information, narratives and diplomacy. A conflict thousands of…

AS Pakistan marks its Independence Day, 14 August should be more than a day of flags and celebration. It should also be a moment of…

For decades, scholars of intelligence and strategic studies have sought to explain why states continue to suffer strategic surprise despite investing enormous re-sources in intelligence…

Why distant wars no longer remain distant Every era of international politics tends to be shaped by a dominant strategic idea. During the Cold War,…

  FOR centuries, national security was measured by the strength of armies, the sophistication of weapons and the ability to defend territorial borders. Wars were…

  IN a world of unpredictability, national strength depends not on eliminating uncertainty, but on managing it through intelligence, resilience and long-term thinking. The most…